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What do we mean when we say Measurement?
Measurement in digital terms is the
QUANTITATIVE and QUALITATIVE
assessment of how a strategic or
tactical element has performed

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Challenges of Measuring Content Marketing
• Different channels – how do the channels fit into the overall marketing
mix?
• Different metrics – “Impressions” is an easy one but there are many that
are new and more complex
• Volume of data – sorting through the vast amount of data is job #1
• Measurement frequency – how often should it be captured and analyzed?
• Lacking measurement fundamentals – Its not taught in schools
and…many of us have an aversion to numbers

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The Measurement Process in Practice
• Benchmark research – gather data at start of program to inform
planning
• Strategy development – based on benchmark research,
communication strategies should be developed
• Tactical elements – all tactics should support
the strategy and be rooted in benchmark research
• Measurement practice – measuring the tactics
to prove if the strategy is successful

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Building Your Content Measuring Program
1. Set up your content measuring operation, get accounts on all online
tools, setup analytics, CRM tasks, align goals to metrics
1. Create lots of great content and distribute it to all appropriate channels
1. Review analytics and other data in depth
daily, weekly, monthly
4. Make changes accordingly
5. Do steps 2-4 over and over again, forever!!

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Outputs, Outtakes & Outcomes
• Outputs – example: If setting up a blog, number of posts would be an
output
• Outtakes – example: if you are trying to convey your commitment to
corporate sustainability, how well is it resonating?
• Outcomes – What are the quantifiable changes in behavior impacted as
a result of the campaign?

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Additional Thoughts on Defining Data Metrics
It’s important to define the data metrics that are critical success factors for
your organization, common key metrics to measure are:
• Compare channel performance to determine where you are getting
traction and where you are not. Stop creating content for non-productive
channels!
• Identify which content producers in your organization inspire the most
engagement – have them create the majority of your content.
• Evaluate which content posts have generated the most activity to spot
keyword trends for future content production.

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It All Starts with Your Goals
Content Marketing Goal 2: Attract New Prospects
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How many visitors do you have?
How many unique visitors do you have?
What is your bounce rate?
What type of devices do readers use to consume
your content?
• Do visitors register for email newsletters?
• Do visitors sign up for feeds
• Do readers call your business?

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It All Starts with Your Goals
Content Marketing Goal 3: Increase customer engagement & lead
generation
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How much time do visitors spend with your content?
How many pages do visitors read on average
Do your readers share your posts via email?
Do readers share your content via social sharing?
Do readers comment on your content?
Do you get leads or inquiries from your content marketing? (downloads,
form completions)
• Does your content marketing help build prospect relationships? (keeping
leads warm through emails/phone calls)

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It All Starts with Your Goals
Content Marketing Goal 4:
Build thought leadership
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Is your content gaining traction?(Look at performance over time)
Which content clicks with your audience?
Do other thought leaders link to your content?
Do other thought leaders engage with you in the comment section of
your content or on social media?
Do you get media requests for your insights?
Do you get requests to contribute to your content offering?
Are you asked to contribute to other content in the industry?
Do you get asked to present at industry events?
Do you get work requests you can attribute to your content marketing?

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It All Starts with Your Goals
Content Marketing Goal 5: Drive Sales
• Can you track sales to your content marketing?
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Include links to relevant product pages. Also link to your
content from your product pages.
• Do you support sales with how-to and specific product information?
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Track product page print outs, targeted promotion codes used and clickthroughs to purchase or place in cart.
• Does your content marketing reduce time-to-purchase?
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Do you link to it from your emailings and other websites?
• Does your content generate advertising sales including banners, Google
Adsense and sponsorships?
• Does your content marketing generate affiliate sales?

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It All Starts with Your Goals
Content Marketing Goal 6: Increase Customer Loyalty
• Does your content reduce returns with post-purchase support?
• Do your customers buy additional or related
products after consuming your content?
• Do your customers share your content with their
family and friends?
• Do your customers contribute content in the form
of ratings and reviews on your website?
• Do your customers share photos or images
using your product?

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2 Awesome Analytics Tools to Use
CHART BEAT
• Great dashboard makes it easy to visually follow what’s happening with
users engaged on your site
• Is user reading, writing, responding on a page or idle?
• How many pixels on a page has the user scrolled?
• Real time data
WOOPRA
• Most sophisticated real time analytics tool in the industry
• Everything ChartBeat does plus it allows you to isolate and segment key
categories of site visitors
• Know what content works with what specific audience
• Real time monitoring of key success events & conversion goals

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One Other Measurement Tool to Use…
Talk to your customers
and prospects!

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Lead Gen Metrics
How often does content consumption result in a lead?
• Form completions & downloads: Through your CRM & URL tracking, how
often visitors access gated content is simple to measure
• Email subscriptions: Your email provider or CRM tracks how many visitors
sign up to receive your emails
• Blog subscriptions: You can measure blog subscriptions through services
like Feedblitz or your CRM system
• Blog comments: A strong comment platform helps here (like Disqus, Livefyre
or one built into your blogging software. ie. Wordpress)
• Conversion rate: How often do visitors who consume content become leads?

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Measuring Indirect Lead Gen
Not all content produces leads directly, but all of your content can contribute to
lead generation behavior
Set goals in Google Analytics to measure how content contributes indirectly to
lead gen:
• For key behaviors that don’t produce revenue immediately (like email signup),
assign a specific dollar value
• Set custom reports to show goals for each piece of content
• Look at the new “page value” data in Google Analytics, which assigns value to
each page corresponding to how often it is viewed “on the way” to a
conversion

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Sales Metrics
Did we actually make any money directly because of this content?
• Online sales: Typically measured through your eCommerce system
• Offline sales: Track via CRM & unique URL’s measured by analytics program
• Act-on and similar solutions can record which pieces of content customers
consumed, allowing you to put a $$ value on each component
• Manual reporting: Record those handshake deals!
Note: In order to track leads & sales, you have to do something that’s trackable. To
understand the impact of a Facebook status update, include a call to action unique
to that piece of content
Don’t forget customer retention: Your most important content audience? Your
current customers! Give them first access. Make them feel special.

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Thought Leadership Metrics
Is our expert status, used in our content helping to generate leads and sales?
• Is your content gaining traction? Analyze performance over time: Use
Google Analytics
• Do other thought leaders link to your content? Use OpenSiteExplorer &
MajesticSEO, SEOMoz or BrightEdge
• Do other thought leaders comment on your content or on social media? Use
your blog analytics
• Do you get media requests for your insights?
• Do you get requests to contribute to your content offering?
• Are you asked to contribute to other content in the industry?
• Do you get asked to present at industry events?

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Loyalty Metrics
Does our content inspire repeat purchases from loyal customers?
• Does your content reduce returns with post-purchase support? Help buyers
by offering instructions and other information for using your products.
• Do your customers buy additional or related products after consuming your
content? Encourage this behavior with links to your product pages.
• Do your customers share your content with others? Include social sharing
buttons and a call-to-action.
• Do your customers contribute content in the form of ratings and reviews on
your website? Use post-purchase emailings to persuade customers to submit
reviews.
• Do your customers share photos or images using your product? Ask
customers to share their photos and stories on social media.

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A Word About SEO
Is your content important in Google’s eyes and is it placed high in the search results?
• Known & unknown keywords – are they driving people to your site? An
opportunity to further optimize your content?
• Known & unknown branded keywords – which brand words are used most often?
• Total visits – tracking it in your analytics platform, but could fall under organic
search bucket too
• Total conversions from known keywords – if you properly optimize content based
on keywords people are using, conversion should increase
• Average search position – based on top known, unknown and branded keywords

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A Word About Social Metrics
You can learn several important things about your brand including:
• Location of conversations – can see geography and channel
• Sentiment – can gauge brand perception
• Key message penetration – resonating with key stakeholders?
• Key influencers – who is driving brand perceptions?